Another long span of time and no post. But work finally seems to be settling down to a new type of routine. It's more frantic and active than it used to be last year, but the intensity of the past few months is tapering off at least.

On the reading front, I finished up that new Fate of the Jedi book, Abyss, in record... Read More

Well, sadly, work did not calm down. In fact, as it turns out, my vacation made things a bit more hectic. Deadlines were pressing and I had to work a lot of evenings over the past few weeks to get caught back up. But now I am happy to report I am (mostly) caught up with things at work.

The Host, by Stephanie Meyer (the Twilight author) just sucked me right in. I'm not a fast reader by any stretch of the imagination, but I've devoured a quarter of this rather large hardcover in just a week and a half. All that and I only read some about every other day. It's ensnared... Read More

Google. If you look up where you're going and find interesting stuff you'd like to do, you can make a vague outline of things you wanna visit on your trip. That way it doesn't turn into the disastrous first day of saying "soooo..... we're here. What now?... Let's just wander aimlessly and then get coffee."

Yeah, it turned out that I went back to Star Wars and The New Jedi Order series. I tried to jump back into Hamilton's Anita Blake world with Blood Noir but I couldn't get into her style of vampires after Meyer's vampires in The Twilight Saga. So a bit of Star Wars fluff it is, perhaps a couple of books, the Agent... Read More

Okay. I finally finished Breakind Dawn after setting it down for over a week. I really had to fight to get back into the story once it switched from Bella to Jacob, but I finally started digging it again when Jacob became an Alpha of his own pack. The whole birth of the baby Nessie was a bit much but Bella's transformation and the... Read More

So I ended up switching gears and I read some Star Wars books in the New Jedi Order. (I traveled the majority of the last couple of weeks, Minnesota, Chicago, Seattle, Austin... I'm a road warrior, I guess, so I wanted paperback books; all my Hamilton and Meyer books are hardbound. It also explains why I don't post as frequently as I used... Read More

The holiday vacation is over and I have to admit I am not looking forward to returning to work -- mainly because I got tasked with a couple of assignments whilst I was out. And they are due Tuesday. Tomorrow is going to be one long day!